"You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word" attributed to Al Capone.

Above photo showing illicit alcohol being poured down a city sewer.

Greg Goettner's great- great grandfather, a Philly motorcycle police officer during Prohibition.
Izzy and Moe
Eliot Ness Johnny Torrio
Dion O'Banion Al Capone
"Machine Gun" McGurn
"Bugs" Moran
"Speakeasies" during Prohibition days.

Eliot Ness

Al Capone






The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
February 14th, 1929 10:30

• Al Capone Vs. "Bugs" Moran
• Moran was contacted by a local thug about a large amount of quality whiskey for sale at a garage
• Moran and his men agreed to meet to look over the whiskey
• It was a set up by Al Capone (vacationing in Florida) and his gang.
• 7 of Moran's men showed up ("Bugs" saw a police car close by and never showed up) and were ushered into the garage.
• 4 gunmen showed up in a police car (two were wearing police uniforms)
• They busted Moran's gang who thought it was a prohibition raid
• Disarming Moran's men the "police" had the men line up against a wall and shot them all using .45 cal Tommy Guns, sawed off shotguns and a .45 cal pistol
• The "police" walked out with the two others and drove away in the police car never to be seen again
• Capone had an alibi and was never directly linked to the murders

Stone Mountain, Ga. where the "rebirth" of the Ku Klux Klan took place in 1915.




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